After a month of hard negotiation and work I’m proud to present:
The site is in Slovenian and you can read more at www.techcrunch.si.
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Announcing TechCrunch Slovenia!
Tuesday, April 1st, 200824ur.com relaunched
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008What we got:
- wider screen
- tableless layout with divitis
What we didn’t get:,
- yslow – >160 requests for >450k – but it takes more time to load, probably due to javascripts in the head
- microformats – wishful thinking
- openid – wishful thinking
What I didn’t check but I think it’s safe to say we didn’t get:
- blogs compatibility
- screen saver for banners
Another thing we lost in the transition is the TV guide. I don’t know where they lost it but you can get it here.
Zemanta is live!
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Zemanta, a Slovenian start-up that got into seedcamp, moved to London for a few months and came back a few months ago launched their service at Spletne urice yesterday. The service that bares the name of the company helps you enrich the blog posts you’re writing. What you need to do is download their browser extension (only Firefox currently supported) and a box will appear in your favorite blogging tool (WordPress, Blogger, Typepad currently supported) that makes adding relevant images, links and related articles to the post a one-click operation.
I like the technology and I think it will make the life of an ordinary blogger a whole lot easier. What I don’t like that much is the HTML they produce in the blogposts. I understand the dilemmas they have with all the themes and platforms they need to support but adding that much style attributes is really not nice.
Disclaimer: I’ve cleaned up the HTML in this post, to see the output check the demo.
Background on html
Monday, March 24th, 2008There’s a paragraph in the CSS specification regarding the background property that states the following:
For HTML documents, however, we recommend that authors specify the background for the BODY element rather than the HTML element. User agents should observe the following precedence rules to fill in the background: if the value of the ‘background’ property for the HTML element is different from ‘transparent’ then use it, else use the value of the ‘background’ property for the BODY element. If the resulting value is ‘transparent’, the rendering is undefined.
This might lead to a surprise when trying to add a background on top of what you have on the body element – when you add a background property to the HTML element everything will shift. You can observe this in most browsers on the links below.
html {}
body {background:#fcc;}html {background:#ccf;}
body {background:#fcc;}It seems you really have to add a semantically meaningless element…
Stop Web Pollution
Thursday, January 10th, 2008SEO is a theme I have been trying to ignore for a long time at Spletne urice, a weekly meeting of (mostly) web professionals. As a programme director and before that only a voice that could be heard my opinion on the matter was that SEO is a simple thing if you’re a web developer (semantic HTML – POSH, web standards, level 1 accessibility) and is a boring issue. The only way a talk about SEO would be interesting was a talk about its dark side. As people might mistakenly think that I (and my predecessor before me) endorse this kind of behaviour I declined any such propositions.
After a few debates and brainstormings I figured what bothered me the most – the notion that all real SEO experts have no conscience and would therefore not be able to talk about the shortcomings of polluting the web with pages that exploit the imperfections of search engines to create traffic and the desperation of users that will click on any banner that promises a better life. I trusted my instincts and invited Mitja to give a talk on SEO and I’m really glad I did. As he said in the talk – a retrospective of what he’s done in SEO made him think and he and Davor (his co-speaker) launched a site called Stop Web Pollution for all of us who don’t want the Internet to become a “big pile of shit”.
While we’re on the topic I’d like to point you to a video of a presentation made on Le Web 3 ’07 conference by Jason Calacanis. You can find it in the “07 – Day 2” tab, the title is “Internet Pollution”.
No more Navigator
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Adactio is calling you an adversary, but I always thought of you as a friend. It’s been some time since we last met, I know work with your cousin and am flirting with a Norwegian girl that’s gotten a promising makeover. You’ll be remembered…